What can you plant after pepper?

Not everyone is as attentive to the rules of crop rotation as they should be. But a poor harvest, pest attacks and other problems often arise on the site precisely because of the ignorance of crop rotation. And each culture must be approached separately: to draw up a plan for planting plants for the next season, in order to take into account the optimality of crop changes and their favorable neighborhood. For example, what is better to plant after the pepper, and what should not come to replace it.

Planting many crops in the same place is undesirable, because this does not have a very good effect on the plant itself and the crop. Plants choose valuable nutrients from the soil, and sometimes there are so many that next year such land will not be able to fully feed a new crop.

Yes, in most cases, the soil is fertilized before planting new plants, making it richer, replenishing the balance of lost substances. But peppers, for example, are already a very demanding culture, one cannot do with feeding. The plant has a superficial root system, that is, it takes its main food from the upper soil layers. This means that the next year after the pepper, it is necessary to plant those crops whose root system can physically reach deeper soil layers.

In the open field, immediately after the pepper, it is permissible to plant:

• carrots;
• beets;
• onion;
• radish;
• beans;
• greens;
• radish;
• garlic;
• various cereals.

These are not ordinary theoretical calculations, but time-tested agrotechnical experience. If peppers grow in a greenhouse, after them radishes and radishes, onions and herbs can be successfully grown there.

It is also important to remember about the pepper itself, which can be sweet and bitter. So bitter and sweet varietal peppers are not planted next to each other. Even in greenhouse walls, it is impossible to completely exclude cross-pollination, which means that a sweet variety that suddenly gives a bitterness may suffer - it will arise precisely because of such a dubious neighborhood.

After the autumn harvest, the land must be disinfected. If this is not done, even favorable followers may not grow very well. Before disinfection, weeds are removed, plant residues are removed from the garden. If you sow mustard in this place, it will naturally disinfect the substrate, and also enrich it with valuable nutrients. Or you can take the drug "Trichodermin", it contains spores of Trichoderm, which are excellent at fighting pathogens in the soil, and also quickly decompose plant residues. And "Fitosporin" is also quite suitable for the purpose of disinfection.

The simplest means for disinfection is potassium permanganate. You just need to spill the earth with a dark pink solution.

These are plants that tolerate such a precursor as pepper. If there is no way to plant something favorable in spring, then it is better to take a crop from this list.

Neutral cultures:

• spinach;
• beans;
• celery;
• asparagus;
• basil;
• legumes;
• cabbage and also lettuce salads;
• garlic;
• coriander;
• parsley;
• Dill.

Also, instead of pepper in its place, it is quite possible to plant green manure plants. For example, lupines, clover, mustard. They perfectly restore the fertile layer. And during the autumn-winter season, they will naturally turn into humus, useful for future plantings. In the spring, before planting, the roots and stems will have to be selected.

After the pepper is harvested, pests that may have occupied it may remain in the ground. They will safely endure the winter and attack the followers of the pepper in the coming season. And these are not only pests, but also causative agents of dangerous diseases, for example, powdery mildew or late blight, root rot.

Therefore, it is definitely impossible to plant after peppers:

• tomatoes;
• eggplant;
• potatoes;
• any kind of pepper.

This is a list of things that cannot be planted categorically. It is undesirable to plant cucumbers, squash, squash, melons, watermelons, pumpkins instead of pepper. And such a ban may imply not one missed season, but 3-4 years. Cucumbers and gourds and pumpkin crops are therefore considered unfavorable followers of peppers, because of them specific toxins accumulate in the soil.

In general, the correct breakdown of the beds is not so difficult, even a beginner will master it. There is such a successfully used classification of garden crops: leafy (greens and salads), fruit (cucumbers, tomatoes, cabbage, peppers), root crops (radishes, carrots, beets, radishes), legumes (beans, peas, soybeans). So the rotation algorithm for the seasons looks like this: fruit - root crop - bean - leaf. Further, you can detail the fruit change, looking at your needs in cultivation.

Here's what a good rotation chain might look like for peppers:

• Predecessors. Spinach, lettuce and basil, marjoram, also cucumbers, dill, parsley.
• Followers. Carrots, beets, daikon, beans, and also radish and radish.
• Neutral cultures. Head salads, onions, asparagus, legumes, and also garlic, peas.
• Neighbors. Salads, carrots, beans, herbs, garlic, celery, onions, caraway seeds, cilantro.

For some reason, some summer residents often plant cucumbers in place of peppers. But if you do this, then only after 4-6 years, and shortening this shift is simply unprofitable - the harvest will be so-so. Although these cultures themselves will be peaceful neighbors, in a sense, they even protect each other from disease. Interestingly, peppers can be planted after cucumbers: both hot and sweet varieties will grow predictably well. But the opposite situation is completely different.

There is one more thing: it is often decided to remove the pepper from the "familiar" place and plant something else instead, because the harvest from year to year only upsets. Perhaps it was just the pepper and planted where he was uncomfortable. This crop will like warm areas with good lighting, fertile soil that has a neutral reaction. He feels great at low elevations, because there the soil will warm up faster. And, perhaps, the fact is that they planted peppers after nightshades (potatoes, tomatoes, eggplants), and the causative agents of diseases common to cultures quietly switched to peppers. It is also worth considering that no type of pepper will tolerate drafts.